Present-day Methodological Community

Public non-commercial resource of the Methodological Movement. Presents texts from the MMC Archive as well as electronic versions of the methodological almanac, ‘Kentavr’(‘Centaur’), and the journal, ‘Voprosy Metodologii’ (‘Issues of Methodology’) of 1991–1999, personal pages of the MMC members and other information.

The site is brought to life by the actuality and scale of stirring social and political problems that can only be solved with the aid of conceptual apparatus of reflexive processes. The site serves to develop both fundamental and applied R&D in the field of reflexive control and a related concept of reflexive system.

The SCP history and programmes are reflected. The site maintains archives of multiple SCP's events, provides links to most of P. G. Shchedrovitsky’s papers. News and announces of the SCP's events are published.

Russia

Moscow

P. G. Shchedrovitsky

Non-commercial Research Foundation G. P. Shchedrovitsky Institute of Development

The Foundation’s site covering its activities contains memorial and archive pages devoted to G. P. Shchedrovitsky and MMC, and a library.

Nonformal discussion of the key issues of regional development, augmentation of peer-to-peer connections between various communities on the basis of common approaches, and establishing working relations with the federal agencies responsible for federal regional policy.

A Russian Internet site for discussing topics important for working out development strategies, for creating a think tank in the Internet space geared to design development projects and programmes providing a decent future for the country, and to develop and master methods of ‘strateging’. The site houses a well-picked library on the above topics. World-class ‘think tanks’ are presented including those established by Russian methodologists.

Latvia

Riga

A. B. Zeltzerman

Experiment.lv

‘Developmental Education’ site of the ‘Experiment’ Educational Centre. Sources on education and pedagogy.

Developmental Instruction Centre (DEC), 1st through 11th school grades, education based on V. V. Davydov’s and D. B. Elkonin’s programme. ‘Umka’ school implements the methodology of developmental instruction and thought-activity pedagogy. The site publishes texts on education against the methodological background .

NooLab company has been involved in artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering R&D since 1998. Substantial efforts are devoted to solving the problem of automatic understanding of text basing on its content.

Official site of the ‘Cultural Captial VFD’ programme. The ‘Open University’ section broadcasts public lectures for a wide audience on a broad spectre of key issues of modern humanitarian knowledge, that are central to development processes.

The ‘BISR’ society was established to promote the process of methodological and strategic analysis of the situation in Latvia. Stenographic recordings of specialised BISR seminars are published as well as other analytical sources; a number of round table discussions are contemplated. The site’s working languages are Russian, Latvian, and English.

The laboratory was established in 1988 under the influence of Methodology. In the first half of 1990s it was a part of the Network of Methodological Laboratories. Since 1997 it carries out self-dependent applied (pedagogy, design, management) as well as theoretical (semiotics, epistemology) projects.

Public and scientific evaluation of bills and political decisions; methodological projects by Kaliningrad Club in the areas of strategic planning, programming of development; planning and performing election campaigns. Original project.

The site of a recognised professional in urban environmental development, history and theory of design. The site houses author's papers and books on urban ecology and architecture, and on social problems of major cities.

Texts by Vladimir Matskevich on methodology, philosophy, humanitarian technologies, and cultural policies are collected here. Generally—all sources including those published, scattered about other sites; text drafts; and readers’ comments. What for?—To collect everything in one place. To provide anyone interested with an easy access. To provide anyone willing with a tool to discuss a burning topic. To talk to the author and, probably, to keep up and develop some of the ideas.

The site is devoted to inventive problems and methods to solve them. According to the site's editorial board, ‘methods evolve when an activity important to humans combines both recurrent and unique qualities. Methodology is a doctrine of methods and means of activity. Methodologists are those who explore for the ways to advance methods. The quality of a method should be tried in practice, by solving real problems, i. e. exploring for the principles to achieve goals’. The followers of the theory of solving inventive problems (TRIZ) advance their own views of thought as well. For example, N. F. Ovchinnikov published his original theory of thought which, according to him, presents ‘a new approach to logic and intuition’. In the ‘Academy’ section G. P. Shchedrovitsky's and V. A. Lefebvre's texts are referred to as classics.

MMPC's efforts are directed nowadays to methodological support of managerial and pedagogical training; managerial, analytical, and consulting practice; as well as to providing for a special training of methodologists and game technicians. The site contains information on current and forthcoming events, on the history of the MMPC and its seminar, and a library.

An active news line of a community of youths impressed by the methodology. Some of the comments are very deep. The topics under discussion are not of a methodological nature but concern the life of methodologists and of those involved.

The site's sections: the profile of the Institute (headed by Sc. D. (Psychology), Prof. Boris Iosifovich Khasan); the activity of the Conflict Resolution Club (established after G. P. Shchedrovitsky’s AOGs and meetings in Krasnoyarsk); a library containing interesting and rare works; projects; and many other items.

The authors present this site as: a network form of interaction between various groups and authors united in various humanitarian and anthropological projects; an open forum where varied humanitarian problems concerning anthropology, its trends, new journals, translations, new articles, and publications can be discussed; a negotiation site for discussing and clarifying new project ideas and arrangements for new projects; a reading room in which best classics of the genre, best samples of the world anthropology thought are collected, some of which not easily found elsewhere.

The School's objective as declared at the site is to create a network of innovation managers in N.‑W. Russia that work in R&D management, industry, education, regional and municipal governance, small and medium-size business. The school offers educational programmes and innovational projects. The site sections are: ‘business community’ news, ‘innovatics’ news, analyses, links to other innovation sites.

A number of conceptual texts on methodology of social engineering (by S. Popov, V. Rozin et al.), philosophy, and new technologies. Results and proceedings of the conference, Information Society and Intellectual Information Technologies of the 21st Century [March, 2001].

Centre for Supplementary Education of Children of the S.‑W. Moscow District Council of Moscow City Council on Education. A number of projects are presented including Institute of textbook Paideia. Annotations to the books by Yu. Gromyko. Information on seminars, conferences, and exhibitions.

The school project is geared to test experimentally a model of a modern high school. The experiment is directed to preserve the high school stage as part of the Russian education system and to work out a new mode of its existence and its ‘educational face’. The experiment is staged at a non-governmental educational institution.